HANSHI SHIRO ASANO was born in Shinjuku, Tokyo on 29th
October 1939. He is Chairman and Chief Instructor
of
SHOTOKAN KARATE INTERNATIONAL (GB) and the SHOTOKAN KARATE
INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN FEDERATION.
A graduate of Takushoku University, Tokyo, and a former pupil
of Master Masatoshi Nakayama, Shiro Asano became the All Japan
Universities Champion in 1957. He repeated this success in 1958.
Upon leaving University, during which time he had been a prominent
member of the Takushoku University Karate Club, he was appointed
a J.K.A. Instructor on 1st April, 1963, and by this time he was
a 4th Dan. Shiro Asano taught in Germany, and at Liverpool before
finally taking up residence in Nottingham in early summer 1968.
He became Chief Instructor to the MIDLANDS KARATE GROUP. In 1974
he was appointed Chairman and Chief Instructor to SHOTOKAN KARATE
INTERNATIONAL (Great Britain).
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Hanshi Asano received his 7th Dan
towards the end of 1978 and he was appointed Chief Instructor
in Europe in Spring 1979. He was awarded 8th Dan by the SHOTOKAN KARATE-DO
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION in 1987. In October 2001 he was promoted to 9th Dan Hanshi.
He is noted for his superb timing, judgement of distance, his
tremendous fighting spirit and his wide knowledge of Kata and
Kumite techniques.
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